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FRUSTRATIONSo far this short trip has been all about weather and I don'tanticipate that changing. I stopped in Needles because the winds weremuch higher than forecast when I landed and I didn't want to continuethat day into the mountains with higher than anticipated winds andfeeling tired. Waited.........
5 Navigation & Weather Equipment (It's thunderstorm time)
on Navigation & Weather Equipment (It's thunderstorm time):On Jun 18th, 2012, at ~12:00 PM, David wrote:Hey Craig,How's the iFly 700 working for you? Does it give you the real-time weather / ADS-B? If not, what are you using for realtime weather?I probably need to upgrade soon. Leaning toward...Tags: Navigation, Weather Equipment, thunderstorm, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country
Cross Country tools: (Equipment)
From emails exchanged during my 48 state cross-country trip A partial list of electronic equipment carriedOn this trip [48 continental US states] I'm using the iFly 720 GPS and moving map, Enigma GPS,iPad with Wing X Pro for the moving map, route planning, sectionalchart display and quite a bit ...Tags: Equipment, Tools, iFly 720 GPS, Enigma, GPS, iPad, Wing X Pro, moving map, Flight Guide, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country
9 Meeting Barry Maggio (Posted June 25th evening)
Posted June 25th evening: Meeting Barry MaggioJohn let me sleep in until 7 AM..."wake up, we need to get ready toleave in half an hour". He had an early breakfast meeting and I hadto hustle so he wouldn't be late. Immediately afterwards we were goingto the airport to load the trikes and head nort...Tags: John, Barry, Lakewood NJ, Weather, Chesapeake Bay, Clouds, Delaware, New Jersey, Statue of Liberty, Lady Liberty, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country
- Date: June 27Subject: The LadyBarry and I got up, caught an early cab back to Lakewood Airportand started getting the trikes ready in the dark. We had to parkoutside overnight and so had secured them well against possible winds.There were a few problems but we finally set out well after sunrise.T...
Tags: Statue of Liberty, Lady Liberty, Hudson, NYC, New York, New Jersey, QuickR, Monsoon, VZ Bridge, Trike Flying, METARS, TAF, aircraft carrier Intrepid, George Washington Bridge, Tappan Zee Bridge, Hudson Corridor, Sing Sing Prison, West Point, Sky Acres, Ellington 7B9, Frustration
- (if you've already read the intro jump down the page to ***) Hostman started this great group with this Story: (I ported it over to the Group's Pages, so that everyone can continue their stories or responses in the ...
Tags: the famous Ground Controler vs the German Airforce, Member's Life Storiees, German 707 Heavy, PSA, LAX, ATC, Trike Pilot, Trike Flying
- This Great Group started by Hostman with his story: the famous Ground Controller vs the German Airforce: A few years ago my wife and I took a two month trip in our RV and one of our stops was at Glacier National Park. One day we took a tram up to Logan's Pass Visitor center located on the "road...
Tags: Member's Life Stories, Story, Trike Pilot, Trike Flying, All Stories
Drone crashes mount at civilian airports
From The Washington Post: Posted by Hostman (ATC Specialist) 12/1/12 Opening Scene: .... He sent the unarmed MQ-9 Reaperdrone off without permission from the control tower. A minute later, he yanked the wrong lever at his console, killing the engine without realizing why. ...Tags: ATC, UAV, Drone Crashes, FAA, CIA, DOD, Spy, Spy in the Sky, Department of Defense, open U.S. civil airspace to surveillance drones, Pentagon, Predator Drone, Reaper drone, software bugs, Trike Pilot, Trike Flying, risk midair collisions
- Pages and Sub-pages are the main way you organize your topics here Look to the right on this Page to see "Navigation" ------------------->--------------------> &...
Tags: Weather, Links, Sources, Trike Flying, Trike Pilot
- Posted by XC-Triker From: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Ghost-Planes-Clouding-the-Skies-179679721.html Wth Video Dozens of airplanes flying ac...
Tags: News, Hackers, Terrorists, Safety, Radar, Transponder, ADS-B, Control Tower, Trike Flying, Trike Pilot, Trikes, Weight Shift Control Aircraft, WSC, Lightsport, Ultralights, Powered Hang Gliders